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Is ESP32 "privacy friendly"? Is its firmware fully open source and contains no backdoors?
by codedokode 3y ago
Is ESP32 "privacy friendly"? Is its firmware fully open source and contains no backdoors?
- dewert 3y agoWhile I get your point, I think it's a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. This project is miles away from being a Ring doorbell. I guess the author found the ease of use of an ESP32 to be an acceptable tradeoff (or didn't consider its firmware to be a problem). Others may feel differently, and can modify their build accordingly.
- zamadatix 3y agoThe ESP32 can barely do what you want it to, let alone also run a yet undetected meaningful backdoor which will impact your privacy.
- Mister_Snuggles 3y agoAnd even if it did run a backdoor, you've got all of your cameras on an isolated VLAN which can't access the internet (or anything else), right?
- chaxor 3y agoBlock it at the router level to allow only LAN?
- jan_Sate 3y agoWhat would be a good alternative that doesn't have binary blob tho?
- adolph 3y ago> Is [Espressif] firmware fully open source and contains no backdoors? Their SDK is Apache licensed but does include some compiled radio-frequency stuff: https://github.com/espressif/esp32-wifi-lib/tree/master/esp32c6 https://github.com/espressif/esp32-wifi-lib/tree/master/esp3...